OpenContent Web Services

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OpenContent Web Services provides a high performance, platform independent Web Services layer for:

Documentum
Alfresco
AWS/S3 and AWS/DynamoDB
Azure/HDInsight
Google/BigTable
Hbase/Hadoop

OpenContent Web Services is written in Java and accessible via REST endpoints.

OpenContent Web Services: Separating the Application from the Software

Whether building your own application or leveraging “out of the box” products from TSG including OpenContent Search, Case and OpenAnnotate, OpenContent Web Services provides a a layer of abstraction between any ECM solution and the end-user application, greatly simplifying development efforts, upgrades and even allowing for back-end software to be swapped without impacting the user!

Applications that leverage OpenContent Web Services provides the following benefits over traditional vendor approaches:

Simplified system upgrades
Easy enabling of repository communication on existing applications
Simplified development efforts
Isolation of repository specific interface components
Flexibility and reuse opportunities

OpenContent Web Services API

The latest OpenContent API documentation is available using the links below:

OpenContent REST API

OpenContent API

OpenContent Management Suite – Fall 2019 3.3 Release
December 19, 2019
TSG is happy to announce the Fall 2019 release, version 3.3, of the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS)! For this post, we will take a look at some of the new features and notable enhancements included in this release. Capture 2.0 As our long time readers will know, TSG has been predicting an upcoming disruption in the Source
OpenContent Management Suite – Fall 2018 Release
November 7, 2018
TSG is happy to announce the Fall 2018 release of the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS)! This release, version 3.1, follows our new product release Spring/Fall cadence that we have started this year. For this post, we will take a look at some of the notable enhancements included in the 3.1 release. New Features Notable new Source
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Comparison- REST Web Services
July 19, 2018
Earlier this year we wrote about comparing Alfresco Share to OpenContent Management Suite. As part of that comparison series, we mentioned that Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Share would be deprecated in future. In moving away from Share, Alfresco has been heavily promoting their Application Development Framework (ADF) as Source
Alfresco Performance – Making Property Queries Faster
May 7, 2018
Recently TSG has assisted multiple clients with unique scenarios to make Alfresco queries more efficient. Like a good auto mechanic that has learned tips and tricks for getting better performance from a car without sacrificing quality, TSG has recently developed performance improvements for Alfresco in OpenContent to address clients’ needs. This post will summarize the Source
Alfresco – Adding the ability to query on very large data sets
January 30, 2018
During a recent migration from an on-premise Documentum system to Alfresco on Amazon Web Services, a client wanted to check the target repository for document counts and other pertinent information to ensure that the migration executed smoothly. For example, a client may want to query to know “how many documents of type X are in the Source

Migrations – Why do they fail? (12 Worst Practices) January 16, 2020
TSG has had some interesting conversations with various client prospects recently who were interested in TSG’s best practices for migrations. While you can find a lot of references here to migration best practices (One Step vs Two, File Formats Lessons, Migrating 11 Billion Documents) , we thought for this post we would be slightly more […]
Print to Repository – OpenContent Print Driver Support January 13, 2020
TSG has been working with a client recently that needs the ability to print directly to the repository. This post will present both the old way of printing to the repository as well as our new OpenContent Print Driver to allow printing to the repository with a consistent web-based indexing user experience. Print to Repository […]